Wholesale District in Indianapolis in Marion County, Indiana — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)
President Abraham Lincoln
Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), April 20, 2019
1. President Abraham Lincoln Marker
Inscription.
President Abraham Lincoln. . The 16th President of the United States was born February 12, 1809, near Hodgenville, Ky. In the harsh Kentucky wilderness that the young Abraham Lincoln and his family called home, settlers struggled to eke out a living on hardscrabble farms. Endless legal wrangling over land ownership and the family's opposition to slavery persuaded the Lincolns to move to the backwoods of southern Indiana in 1816., Years later, President Lincoln recalled, "We reached our new home about the time the state came into the union. It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals in the woods. There I grew up." It was on this frontier where many of the Lincoln legends known to generations of American schoolchildren were born: learning to read by firelight, walking miles to return a borrowed book, working as a rail-splitter on the family farm., By 1830, when the Lincolns relocated to Illinois, the boy had grown into a studious yet amiable young man. Gregarious and affable, he looked for a life beyond farm labor. That ambition would lead him to the White House at the time of his nation's greatest peril.
The 16th President of the United States was born February 12, 1809, near Hodgenville, Ky. In the harsh Kentucky wilderness that the young Abraham Lincoln and his family called home, settlers struggled to eke out a living on hardscrabble farms. Endless legal wrangling over land ownership and the family's opposition to slavery persuaded the Lincolns to move to the backwoods of southern Indiana in 1816.
Years later, President Lincoln recalled, "We reached our new home about the time the state came into the union. It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals in the woods. There I grew up." It was on this frontier where many of the Lincoln legends known to generations of American schoolchildren were born: learning to read by firelight, walking miles to return a borrowed book, working as a rail-splitter on the family farm.
By 1830, when the Lincolns relocated to Illinois, the boy had grown into a studious yet amiable young man. Gregarious and affable, he looked for a life beyond farm labor. That ambition would lead him to the White House at the time of his nation's greatest peril.
Location. 39° 45.856′ N, 86° 9.454′ W. Marker is in Indianapolis, Indiana, in Marion County. It is in the Wholesale District. It is on East Georgia Street east of South Meridian Street, in the median. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 20 East Georgia Street, Indianapolis IN 46204, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this marker is in Central Indiana. It is also in the American Midwest and in the Corn Belt. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture and also the Northwest Territory.
Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), April 20, 2019
3. President Abraham Lincoln Marker
Credits. This page was last revised on February 4, 2023. It was originally submitted on April 27, 2019, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 272 times since then and 16 times this year. Photos:1, 2, 3. submitted on April 27, 2019, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.
